Links for 2006-03-23 – plasticbag.org

Today’s awesome minimalist meditative game of choice is “Don‚Äôt Shoot the Puppy” Hint – the way to win is to very very patiently do absolutely nothing at all. It’s kind of zen.
Roger Ebert publishes a letter from Kerry Bailey which pretty much summarises my opinions on the Crash Oscar victory Kerry’s a friend who lives in LA. I think both of us felt that Crash was the worst possible film to beat Brokeback Mountain at the Academy Awards. He’s just expressed it better than I have…
Apple have attacked the proposed French law to force interoperability I don’t know the specifics of the law, but personally I’m in favour of any move towards making it possible for people to buy from one place and play elsewhere. It may not be practical, but it should be a goal…
The Cisco VPN Client has gone Universal Binary with 4.9.00.0050 Ever since buying my Intel iMac a while back, I’ve been surprised by how many things need to be updated to work properly – and how quickly the binaries are appearing. It’s quite exciting, actually.
Ben Edwards report on the ETech Warewolf gaming experience… I think ETech’s Warewolfing was some of the best I’ve ever played – even more enjoyable (if less well-played) than the stuff from FOOCamp last year. Brains! BRAINS!
Wikipedia’s article on Jam is simply fascinating. I particularly like the information on the EU jam directive (Council Directive 79/693/EEC, 24 July 1979) “Fruit” is considered to include many things that are not ordinarily classified as fruits: “tomatoes, the edible parts of rhubarb stalks, carrots, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, melons and water-melons”…
Beebo’s Metalog posts his Technorati 100-like list of the most-linked to weblogs in September 2000 I remember the Beebo lists incredibly well – back when the community probably no more than few thousand weblogs. I’d taken a hit by moving from barbelith to plasticbag.org and no one really cared about what we did. Happy days…
After a thread on Holocaust Denial appeared on Barbelith, I went and read this fascinating page examining the claims of the revisionists on Wikipedia It’s really good stuff, thorough and interesting. It’s not going to convince anyone determined to believe that there’s a huge Jewish conspiracy at work, of course, but then they have other issues.
A 2,500 year old sarcophagus has been found in Cyprus, covered with paintings representing scenes from Homer… Sometimes it’s easy to forget that the history you read about in books actually bloody happened to real people. Moreover, how awesome is it that over two millennia since the time of the Greeks we’re still finding more stuff and gaining more insight?!

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